Wanda Waterman

Wanda Waterman is a poet, spoken word artist, blogger, cultural journalist, and digital nomad. She’s been writing regularly for The Voice Magazine since 2004, not long after she began studying psychology at Athabasca. Her poetry has been published in Descant, The Talking Leaves, Chizine, Our Times, The Best of Tigertail, and Pottersfield Portfolio and her articles in Design is Political, Rawckus Magazine, Coastal Life, The New Internationalist, This Magazine, and in her blog, The Mindful Bard. She grew up in Nova Scotia, but after having lived in New Hampshire and North Africa she’s now settled in Montreal.

Film: Until the Light Takes Us (Variance Films 2010) Genre: Documentary Directors: Aaron Aites, Audrey Ewell In light of the recent tragedy in Norway, It’s instructive to get a glimpse into some of the cultural conditions predating that incident. And since my Mindful Bard recommendation this week discusses the way Negro spirituals and protest songs… Read more »

Film: Soundtrack for a Revolution (2010) Genre: Documentary Writers/Directors: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman Executive Producer: Danny Glover When you watch old black and white footage of children gladly marching to jail, you get a sense of how bad life really was for African-Americans in the southern US, up to and including the 1960s. It’s hard… Read more »

Album: Drums Between the Bells a spoken word collaboration between musician Brian Eno and poet Rick Holland) ?. . . You really seem to see the real The exact and actual reality Of the real in things you seem to see The real thing . . .? Rick Holland, in Drums Between the Bells Of… Read more »

Film: Ajami (2010) Directors: Scandar Copti , Yaron Shani Cast: Shahir Kabaha, Ibrahim Frege, Fouad Habash, Youssef Sahwani, Ranin Karim, Eran Naim, Scandar Copti ?Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.? ?Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing… Read more »